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Bollons, John Peter (Captain), 1862-1929 :Album of photographs of scientific expedition to the Sub-Antarctic Islands, November 1907
- Date
- November 1907
- By
- Bollons, John Peter (Capt), 1862-1929; Page, Samuel, active 1907; Bollons, L R (Mrs), active 1946
- Reference
- PA1-q-228
- Description
Album of photographs of plant and animal life on Stewart Island, Snares Islands, Auckland Islands and Campbell Island taken on the scientific expedition to the Sub-Antarctic Islands undertaken in November 1907. Also includes are photographs of the Government steamship Hinemoa, on which the expedition travelled, and of of the remains of the ships Grafton and Dundonald, which were wrecked in the Auckland Islands. The photographer for the expedition was Samuel Page.
A long two page inscription is inserted in the front of the album. Two copies, one hand-written with inscription and 25 signatures, followed by a copper-plate copy of the inscription and list of names. The inscription begins "To Captain J. Bollons, G.S.S. Hinemoa. We the members of the Scientific Expedition organised by the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury which has just visited the Auckland and Campbell Islands under your charge desire to thank you most sincerely & gratefully for the many facilities which you have put in our way for carrying on our investigations ..."
One photograph shows the members of the Auckland Islands party of the expedition (names listed above). Another shows the surviving members of the crew of the Dundonald which was wrecked on Disappointment Island, and one showing three of the survivors on the deck of the Hinemoa with Hinemoa crew member K. Knudson, standing by the frame of a canvas boat which they used to try and escape from the island. (Photograph with caption listing their names, p 9)
In 1907 the New Zealand Government agreed, after representations from the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, the Otago Institute and the New Zealand Institute, to land scientific parties on the Auckland Islands and Campbell Island, during the annual trip of the Government steamship Hinemoa, under the command of Captain Bollons, in November. The purpose of the expedition was to extend the magnetic survey of New Zealand, and to further investigate the geology, zoology and botany of these islands. The expedition left Bluff on 14 November 1907.
Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Physical Description: Red cloth bound photograph album with leather corners and spine, 36.3 x 29 cm
Provenance: This album was presented to Captain Bollons by the members of the expedition.
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Copy negatives available at 1/2-C-011370 to 1/2-C-011373; 1/2-C-011383; 1/2-C-052150; 1/2-C-052495; 1/2-C-056480 to 1/2-C-056482; 1/2-C-084692 to 1/2-C-084693
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- No access restrictions
- Format
- 1 album(s) Album(s), Photographs, Red cloth bound photograph album with leather corners and spine, 36.3 x 29 cm
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Boat crew setting seine net, Auckland Islands
Date: November 1907
From: Bollons, John Peter (Captain), 1862-1929 :Album of photographs of scientific expedition to the Sub-Antarctic Islands, November 1907
Reference: PA1-q-228-06-1
Description: View looking into Carnley Harbour, possibly from Musgrave Peninsula, Auckland Islands, showing boat with crew setting seine net. Photograph taken November 1907, probably by Samuel Page. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Looking into Carnley Harbour from Musgrove Harbour. Boats crew setting seine net. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 10.5 x 14.8 cm, mounted on album page
Auckland Island camp, dining tent
Date: 1907
From: Bollons, John Peter (Captain), 1862-1929 :Album of photographs of scientific expedition to the Sub-Antarctic Islands, November 1907
Reference: PA1-q-228-06-2
Description: Auckland Island camp, dining tent. Photograph taken November 1907, probably by Samuel Page. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Auckland Island camp, dining tent Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 11.1 x 15.5 cm, mounted on album page
Members of the Auckland Islands Party of the Sub Antarctic Expedition - Photograph take...
Date: November 1907
From: Bollons, John Peter (Captain), 1862-1929 :Album of photographs of scientific expedition to the Sub-Antarctic Islands, November 1907
Reference: PA1-q-228-01
Description: Members of the Auckland Islands Party of the Sub-Antarctic Expedition: Bottom row, from left: Edgar R Waite, Dr Leonard Cockayne, Dr William Blaxland Benham, Dr Clinton Coleridge Farr. Centre row, from left: Mr George Vernon Hudson, Captain Arthur A Dorrien-Smith, H D Cook, Bernard Cracroft Aston, John Smaillie Tennant, Robert Speight. Back row, from left: Samuel Page, A M Finlayson, G S Collyns, H B North. Photograph taken in November 1907 by Samuel Page. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 149 x 202 mm mounted on album page
Crew of `Hinemoa' on an expedition to the Auckland Islands showing the frame of a boat ...
Date: 1908
From: Bollons, John Peter (Captain), 1862-1929 :Album of photographs of scientific expedition to the Sub-Antarctic Islands, November 1907
Reference: PA1-q-228-09-3
Description: K Knudson (3rd Mate), M Puhl, R Ellis an J Grattan on board the `Hinemoa' alongside a wooden frame of what had been a canvas boat. The boat was used by survivors of the Dundonald shipwreck. Taken by an unidentified photographer during an expedition to the Auckland Islands in 1908. Information on back of file print reads `View of frame of canvas boat on deck of Hinemoa with K Knudson (3rd Mate), M Puhl, R Ellis, J Grattan. Boat framework used by survivors of `Dundonald' shipwreck on Dissapointment [sic] Island, Auckland Islands, not Campbell Island. From Bollans album. Hinemoa expd. 1908 to Campbell Is.' Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Photograph of members of the Auckland Islands party of the Sub-Antarctic Islands scient...
Date: November 1907
From: Bollons, John Peter (Captain), 1862-1929 :Album of photographs of scientific expedition to the Sub-Antarctic Islands, November 1907
Reference: PA1-q-228-31-2
Description: Members of the Auckland Islands party of the Sub-Antarctic Islands scientific expedition at a flying camp in the bush, at the end of a working day, photographed November 1907 by Samuel Page. The group comprises: From left: Robert Speight, Dr William Blaxland Benham, G S Collyns (in front), A M Finlayson, Dr Leonard Cockayne (in front), John Smaillie Tennant, H D Cook, H B North, unknown, Captain Arthur A Dorrien-Smith, Edgar R Waite (in front), Bernard Cracroft Aston. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - After the days work a flying camp in the bush. Physical Description: Toned gelatin silver print 14.8 x 20.1 cm, mounted on album page 35.2 x 26.5 cm
Address to Captain J Bollons
Date: 29 November 1907
From: Bollons, John Peter (Captain), 1862-1929 :Album of photographs of scientific expedition to the Sub-Antarctic Islands, November 1907
Reference: PA1-q-228-i/ii
Description: Manuscript dedication to Captain J Bollons of GSS Hinemoa, signed by members of scientific expedition to the Sub-Antarctic Islands, 29 November 1907.. Signatories are: Bernard Cracroft Aston, Dr William Blaxland Benham, R Browne, Charles Chilton, Dr Leonard Cockayne, G S Collyns, H D Cook, Captain Arthur A Dorrien-Smith, Dr Clinton Coleridge Farr, A M Finlayson, George Vernon Hudson, Edward Kidson, Harry Borrer Kirk, Robert M Laing, George R Marriner, P Marshall, J B Mayne, C A'court Opie, Samuel Page, Henry Skey, J Crosby Smith, Robert Speight, John Smaillie Tennant, Edgar R Waite. Quantity: 2 album pages. Physical Description: Album page opening 35.2 x 53 cm
Dr Leonard Cockayne studying a sub-antarctic tussock grass on Ewing Island
Date: November 1907
From: Bollons, John Peter (Captain), 1862-1929 :Album of photographs of scientific expedition to the Sub-Antarctic Islands, November 1907
Reference: PA1-q-228-16-3
Description: Dr Leonard Cockayne studying a sub-antarctic tussock grass (Poa litorosa) on Ewing Island, photographed in November 1907 by Samuel Page. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Large Tussock Ewing Isld Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Toned gelatin silver print 15 x 11.2 cm, mounted on album page 35.2 x 26.5 cm
Cemetery at Port Ross, Auckland Islands; Jabez Peters' grave at left.
Date: 1907
From: Bollons, John Peter (Captain), 1862-1929 :Album of photographs of scientific expedition to the Sub-Antarctic Islands, November 1907
Reference: PA1-q-228-12-2
Description: Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Cemetery at Port Ross Auckland Islds. Jabez Peters' grave on left. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).